by O. P. Srivastava | Aug 16, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
From Paan Singh Tomar to Manikarnika, real life stories are all the rage. Biopics are very much the fashion now in the Indian film industry. From Paan Singh Tomar (2012), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) and Sanju (2018) doing fairly well to last year’s Manto (2018) not...
by Pavani Kaushik | Aug 15, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Culture, Heritage Arts, People, Profiles
Some things are hardwired into our DNA no matter where we might travel across the globe. Language and vocabulary feature right at the top of the list. The words ‘Karnataka’ and ‘handcrafted puppetry’ jumped out at me from my email inbox one morning. I was intrigued...
by Kailash Joshi | Aug 12, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Community, Sponsored 2
By: Kailash Joshi Ph.D., President- Hindu Community Institute Rich Hindu wisdom, traditions, and extended family support are a great blessing when it comes to celebrations, the passage of life and matters relating to the quality of life. I was a beneficiary of this...
by Preeti Hay | Aug 12, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
I remember Sapna Bhavnani from party circles in Mumbai in the mid 2000s. Her salon Mad- O-Wat was quite the rage among my pink-haired, mohawked girlfriends who made heads turn! When I saw her on a common internet group wanting to make a film on Sindhis I was...
by Vibha Akkaraju | Aug 12, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Cover Story
Wasia Jan was six years old when her father was killed in the India-Pakistan border conflict. The year was 1999. He was a tailor and had never been involved with the military, though his brother had been in the army, and Jan thinks that this may have had something to...
by Meera Kymal | Aug 11, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Politics
‘A Coup Against the Constitution and the Kashmiris’ is how Delhi-based human rights organization, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) condemned Indian PM Modi’s shock Kashmir intervention, in a statement released on Wed, Aug 7, 2019. Modi’s controversial...
